A different example using string and wire. https://youtu.be/EUlG0OGQmEA
Harry On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 2:22 PM H L V <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "You can't push on a string" > > I think this single string tensegrity structure is even more awe inspiring > when he briefly holds it as a cantilever before standing it up right. > If you skip to the second half of the video he shows how to use a block of > wood to assemble the structure more quickly. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-scY9qESE > > Another builder made a taller and heavier single string tensegrity tower > as well as a single string table. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sUjpkmisBs > > Some history. > The Latvian-Soviet artist/sculptor/engineer Karlis Johansons exhibited his > first "self-tensile constructions" in 1921. The engineering and sculptural > possibilities of such pre-tensioned systems were further explored by > Buckminster Fuller and the sculptor Kenneth Snelson in the second half of > the 20th century. (eg. see Snelson's "Needle Tower") The word tensegrity > (tensile + integrity) coined by Fuller is now the common name for such > structures. I have noticed that the first tensegrity structures focused on > the use of straight struts, but now people are starting to explore the > possibilities of using curved struts. > > Harry > > > > > >
